Section 6 of Limitation Act "Legal disability"
Where a person entitled to institute a suit or make an application for the execution of a decree is, at the time from which the prescribed period is to be reckoned, a minor or insane, or an idiot, he may institute the suit or make the application within the same period after the disability has ceases, as would otherwise have been allowed from the time specified therefore in the third column of the Schedule.
(2) Where such person is, at the time from which the prescribed period it to be reckoned, affected by two such disabilities, or where, before his disability has ceased, he is affected by another disability, he may institute the suit or make the application within the same period after both disabilities have ceased, as would otherwise have been allowed from the time so specified.
(3) Where the disability continues upto the death of that
person, his legal representative may institute the suit or
make the application within the same period after the death,
as would otherwise have been allowed from the time so
specified.
(4) Where the legal representative referred to in
sub-section (3) is, at the date of the death of the person
whom he represents. affected by any such disability, the
rules contained in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall apply.
(5) Where a person under disability dies after the
disability ceases but within the period allowed to him under
this section, his legal representative may institute the
suit or make the application within the same period after
the death, as would otherwise have been available to that
person had he not died.
Explanation - For the purposes of this section 'minor'
includes a child in the womb.
Notes - This section corresponds with section 6 of the old
Act with some changes.
Section 7 of Limitation Act "Disability of one of several persons"
Where one of several persons jointly entitled to
institute a suit or make an application for the execution of
a decree is under any such disability, and a discharge can
be given without the concurrence of such person, time will
run against them all; but, where no such discharge can be
given, time will not run as against any of them until one of
them becomes capable of giving such discharge without the
concurrence of the others or until the disability has cased.
Explanation I - This section applies to a discharge from
every kind of liability, including a liability in respect of
any immovable property.
Explanation II - For the purposes of this section, the
manager of a Hindu undivided family governed by the
Mitakshara law shall be deemed to be capable of giving a
discharge without the concurrence of the other members of
the family only if he is in management of the joint-family
property.